War is the American way

For the past 20 years, US troops or their proxies have garrisoned the globe, fought directly or indirectly without pause, and spent trillions on developing, maintaining and marketing weapons. This isn’t going to change under the current president

by Tom Engelhardt

“War is peace” was a slogan on the façade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in Newspeak, the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, the phrase is eerily applicable to the United States. A New York Times front-page story by Eric Schmitt and (...)